By Samuel John Klein of Portland, Oregon - An Independent Graphic Designer living in a city that was built upon an ancient Unicorn burial ground.

19 September 2008

[design] New YSAP #17 ... Photomerge ... It's Donnie Day Again!

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Donnie is back with another episode out of the tortured heck that is his life. This time, he demonstrates something that I actually don't suck at ... Photomerge. I rather rule at this actually.

Photomerge is a pre-packaged automation that takes a bunch of photos you've had to tile and stitches them together in one big photo. It's actually quite amazing. This photo of the Oregon State Capitol building:

Was created using my trusty old ViviCam 3705, standing back in the middle of Court Street in Salem, and taking eight or ten pictures that I made sure to overlap, then uniting them all in Photoshop using Photomerge. Can't take huge pictures? Photomerge is the next best thing.

Oh, yes ... the episode. Donnie skates us to the edge of the "uh-oh" feeling as per usual. Now not only is Ricky after him, so is the spurned Sandy. And Donnie is trying to get Sna4tchbuckl3r to help him out with those flash drives that he apparently hid all over Covington, Kentucky. And, with Photomerge, he can stitch it all into one, big "this goes out if I get capped" picture:

Here, at episode #17, we don't know about you, but we see a foreshadowing of exactly what's going on with those flash drives ... and we kind of fear for Donnie, actually. This is going to end in tears, we just know.

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Graphic designer, writer, editor. Worker in the Big Machine; the quintessential working-class native Oregonian, I drive some of the grimier gears so the Big Cats and Kittens don't have to. Am in the process of reinventing myself as the artist I always ought to have been. My blog is The ZehnKatzen Times.

This sentence, courtesy of commenter "JD", will help you remember the initials in order:All Across Portland Our Streets Wind Around Mossy Yards. Traffic Snarls May Mean Jammed Cars, Cranky Motorists Making Minimal Headway. Harried Commuters Just Love Going Slow.

Commenter Dave DiNucci, using enough of the letters from each word to eliminate ambiguity, gives us the following two possiblilities: This first one plays on the fact that alphabetically-arranged streets going north from Burnside are named for Portland founders while those going south do not:ANcestors ASsociated Portland Oregon STreets With ALphabetic MORtals, Yet Toward SAlem, MAInly MADe JEjune, COLUmnar, CLiche MARked MIxtures. MONotones HARmonize HALfway, COLLiding JAuntily. Lines Gently SHim.

This second one is more poetic but less PDX-centered, but works the Gorge in, as well as Lincoln, Grant, and Sheridan: